How Conventions Work

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 2, 2020

Are you still confused how nominating conventions and superdelegates work? Boris Heersink, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University and author of the upcoming book, Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 explains the confusing culmination of the primary process, and why we do it this way.

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